Planning portal-help with the jargon

lou34_2

I have looked at the planning portal for our local council to check out the surrounding land around the house that we are buying. I havent found it the easiest to get to grips with!

Does anyone know what a 'Residential development corden' is?
And a 'County landscape border'. I could hazzardous a guess but it would be good to have some clarification.

No doubt our solicitor will be doing similar searches but it doesnt harm to double check these things.
Thanks

RLH33

I would think that a residential development cordon is the limit at which residental development is acceptable -we call them housing development boundaries in my area! Outside the boundary there will probably be policies to prevent residential development.

County landscape border could just be the boundary of a landscape character area but I would have a quick chat with the planning dept and thy will happily clarify your queries for you.

Fuzzyness

residential development corden isnt a typical planning term i've come across but as RLH33 says it is likely to refer to limits outside of which new residential development would be restricted. if you want to share which local authority it is i'll happily have a quick look for you.

Richard_Webster

Remember all this stuff is about planning policies that each planning authority has to justify its planning decisions and are subject to change. Planners love jargon - don't use one word if two or three will do! (I have sat in a Council Planning Committee and heard a planner telling the committee that the fenestration treatment was inappropriate on some building - when what he meant was he didn't like the windows!)

Developers go to appeal and try to show that the council's policies are contrary to the latest government guidance or that they have been applied inconsistently.

Conveyancing solicitors will not normally even begin to go into this stuff when dealing with a house purchase. A local search may well list applicable policies but it is quite beyond the scope of a buyer's solicitor to go into all this and explain its meaning on a purchase transaction. Few conveyancers would have sufficient understanding of planning law and practice even to begin and fees would go through the roof (£5,000 instead of may be £500?) if buyers expected detailed commentaries on the applicable planning policies relating to the property and land nearby.

lou34_2

Thanks for everyones comments, i rang up planning dept today. The lady in planning didnt even sound too sure...a lot of whaffeling!!:rotfl:

She then directed me to the related policy which she advised me to read. After scrolling through it its would seem that it means that it would be highly unlikely any building applications would be approved outside the 'residential development cordon'.

lou34_2

Richard_Webster wrote: »

Remember all this stuff is about planning policies that each planning authority has to justify its planning decisions and are subject to change. Planners love jargon - don't use one word if two or three will do! (I have sat in a Council Planning Committee and heard a planner telling the committee that the fenestration treatment was inappropriate on some building - when what he meant was he didn't like the windows!)

:rotfl:Ha, thats tickled me! Bet most the people round the table didnt know what he was on about!!